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entire night for its rendition and is commonly called a story. 
Each of these stories has its designated accompaniment. 
Among the Yuma the accompanying instruments are a gourd 
rattle and an inverted basket struck with a bundle of arrow- 
wood, a willow stick, or the palm of the hand. Sometimes 
two bundles of arrowwood or two sticks are used, being held 
in the same hand. Specimens of these instruments were 
obtained, also a bamboo flute and two bamboo flageolets. 
The music of the latter was phonographically recorded. 
The Yuma songs included those of the treatment of the 
sick, those of games, and three interesting lullabies. 
The work among the Yaqui was conducted at Guadalupe 
village, near Tempe, Ariz. The older Yaqui in this village 
were born in Mexico. These Indians have received no favors 
from the United States Government and support themselves 
by manual labor. They seem happy and contented in their 
little desert village. Miss Densmore witnessed their deer 
dance and later recorded the songs from one of the leading 
singers, a native of Mexico. The occasion of the dance was 
the celebration of Easter eve. The songs were accompanied 
by playing upon four half gourds. The Yaqui have two 
distinct forms of music, one which appears to be entirely 
native and the other showing a Mexican or Spanish influence. 
A large proportion of the songs transcribed and heard 
during the past year were accompanied by a gourd rattle, 
and are of unusual musical value, both in pleasing melody 
and rhythmic interest. This suggests an inquiry as to 
whether the songs accompanied by the rattle are generally 
more musical than those accompanied by the drum. It is 
interesting to note that the songs of the Yuma and Cocopa . 
resemble each other but differ entirely from the songs of 
the Papago who live adjoining them. The songs of the 
Yaqui, so far as observed, differ from both these tribes except 
in the frequent use of rests. The rhythm of the rattle in 
Yuma and Cocopa performances is more elaborate and con- 
tains more frequent changes than that of the accompanying 
instrument in any tribe thus far studied. A correspondence 
between the words of the song and the progressions of the 
melody is particularly evident in these songs. 
